This volume updates the groundbreaking first edition, which traced the development of alternative poetry in the post-1950 period, including the Beats, New York School, Projectivism, and language poetry, to which the editor has added conceptual poetry, proceduralism, cybernetic poetry including flarf, written with the assistance of online search engines, and a new generation of "post-language lyric" poetry. The second edition has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which called it "stunning" and "an essential book for students and serious fans of poetry." Reviewer Donna Seaman commented in Booklist that each new writing approach "yields poems of provocation, mystery, wit, even beauty, adding up to an engrossing and defining collection." The book will be available for purchase and signing in the museum's bookstore.

Ticket Information

Free tickets are available in front of the Koret Auditorium beginning at 5:30 pm. No advance reservations necessary. Seating begins at 6 pm.

Sponsor

This event is co-sponsored by the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University.